Zhu Biao sat in the house for a while, and then asked Liu An to lead him to the study. It was natural that such a large house would not be empty, and there were even many books in it, but he was not in the mood to read at this time.
Zhao Huai'an put out his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and Zhu Biao first wrote a letter to his father. At this time, the imperial examinations were about to begin. The selection of candidates for the new subjects and candidates were just arranged towards the disaster area. It was hard to say in the future, but the newly promoted officials had some points.
Conscience is there.
It doesn’t matter if you have little experience in corruption. If you recruit veterans from other places, it will be a matter of changing the soup without changing the medicine. It is the same as capital. Officials don’t mind taking risks for 50% of the profit. If they have double the profit, they will
They dared to risk beheading, and if there were three times the profit, they took the risk of killing even their relatives and committed the crime.
What's more, the benefits that can be gained from corruption in disaster areas are not limited to these. It is said that the benefits are more than ten times the amount. Officials rely on their power to divide up the disaster relief grain shipped by the court, monopolize and control the local grain selling industry, and then directly sell it to the government at exorbitant prices.
For the people affected by the disaster, if they run out of money, let them use their properties and acres of land in exchange. Who would cling to these extraneous things in a famine?
After surviving for a period of time, the people who had sold out all their property were reduced to refugees on the streets, while the poor people who had no property had long since starved to death.
And those who benefited can be said to be full of food. Once the famine is over, the fields, shops and properties in their hands will naturally become valuable again. With these, they can bribe the superior officials in Beijing and transfer them from this poor place to the countryside as soon as possible.
He served in wealthy areas such as Jiangnan.
After this set of rules, except for the royal family who raised food for disaster relief and the people who were affected by the disaster, everyone was full. It was considered a fat year. Is this a real wealthy family that has frozen to death on the road of wine and meat?
Zhu Biao pursed his lips tightly, with a murderous look on his face. Liu An, who was waiting on the side, lowered his head and looked at his toes, not even daring to take a breath. In the study room, there was only the faint sound of pen and ink sliding across the letter paper.
After he finished writing, he asked Liu An to seal it. He sat on a chair to relax and wrote a letter home to his mother. His son traveled thousands of miles and his mother was worried. Zhu Biao was a naturally understanding person and wrote some daily trivial matters.
Just let your mother know that he is safe and healthy.
The other letter was written to the princess. This time I didn’t plan to write anything to tell her to take care of her health. That would make it too obvious that I only care about the child in her belly. Pregnant women tend to be sentimental and cannot be with her in the first place.
Being around her will naturally not make her sad again.
Zhu Biao's writing is quite good, and his love letters are also at hand. He describes the beauty of Suzhou, Hangzhou and Yangzhou in words, and promises to take her out for a walk next year. It will be easier to have something to look forward to, no matter who it is.
After writing the three letters to his closest family members, the rest were naturally for other people. Zhu Biao first wrote to Yan Donglai, the Minister of Dali Temple, and Chen Youzong, the Minister of General Affairs, asking them to check who was the official of Shaanxi and Gansu in Beijing.
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Mao Xiang cannot be trusted now. His house and several thousand taels of silver have not been reported, which means that he has a vague feeling that his end is not good, and he is preparing a way out for himself.
Zhu Biao guessed that it was Hu Weiyong who woke him up. After all, it was obvious that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to see the two of them fight each other. Hu Weiyong could not completely defeat Mao Xiang, because behind Mao Xiang was the emperor. Only the emperor took the initiative to abandon Mao Xiang.
Only the commander of the Military Duwei Mansion will die.
Therefore, Hu Weiyong naturally did not want to waste his energy entangled with him, so he simply woke him up directly. You killed the left prime minister of the current dynasty according to the emperor's wishes. Even the prime minister couldn't defeat you. You are so powerful, have you ever thought about your own ending?
Anyone in Mao Xiang's position knows well that people like them in the past dynasties will probably have no good end. Maybe at the beginning they were willing to sacrifice themselves for the emperor's eternal achievements, but the longer time goes by, the greater the changes in human nature.
Now Mao Xiang wants to live.
To be honest, Zhu Biao was in a dilemma for Mao Xiang. He was in a difficult situation. If he made a slight mistake, he would be punished by being executed. He could either follow the emperor's wishes and stare at Hu Weiyong, and wait for the order to pounce on him and bite him to death.
He cooperated with Hu Weiyong to raise the bandits' self-respect so as to prevent the birds from disappearing.
It's just that these little ideas were leftover from Zhu Yuanzhang's play more than ten years ago. I don't know how Mao Xiang could not sleep day and night, let alone what his final decision was. Zhu Yuanzhang's dog is not easy to be a dog, and he has few bones and a whip.
If there are too many, they will be easily peeled off and put into the pot if they make the slightest mistake.
After that, Zhu Biao wrote several more letters, which were not sent to the capital, but to his subordinates in the East Palace. There were too many disaster-stricken areas, and Zhu Biao was unable to do all the work on his own. After taking down the corrupt officials, each city must be able to take on its own responsibility.
Most of the people sent by the imperial court were new officials with little experience. People's lives were at stake in disaster relief, so he was worried about leaving it to a bunch of stupid young people.
It's not just about not being greedy when doing things. The police are slippery and the people are ignorant and difficult to teach. All kinds of officials need experienced and capable officials. It's definitely not something that nerds who just got out of the examination room can handle well.
Except for Wu Bozong, who loved astronomy, who stayed in the capital, the other outstanding students in that department, including Guo Chong, Zhang Fan, Li Jin, etc., all registered their names in the Hanlin Academy at Zhu Biao's suggestion and then went to other places to practice.
Those few were all ambitious. When Zhu Biao sent them away from Beijing, he also rewarded each of them with two hundred taels of silver. He warned them not to be greedy for temporary profits and forget their ambition to study hard for ten years, so he gave them the money.
I just hope that you will not be trapped in survival and can focus on serving the public and relieving the people's worries.
Later, they specially sent people to secretly investigate and found that Zhu Biao's money was not easy to get. He had given him all the settlement expenses and a bright future. If he still dared to embezzle and accept bribes, he would not take the prince seriously.
At that time, Zhu Biao gave money to about eight or nine people, all of whom had outstanding performance in the relocation. However, two people later became embezzled and accepted bribes. By this time, the grass on their graves should not be low.
The first thing Zhu Biao thought of was naturally Guo Chong, the number one scholar. He should be the county magistrate in Taiyuan Prefecture, Shanxi Province at this time. This man was knowledgeable and talented, and his status as the number one scholar was very useful for the candidates who had just finished the examination.
Then there are Zhang Fan and Li Jin who are more interested in him. One of them is in Xi'an Prefecture, the other is in Xiangyang Prefecture, one is the county magistrate and the other is the magistrate of the state capital. They have smooth official careers.
The administrative ability of these two people is stronger than that of Guo Chong, especially in appeasing the people, and they both have endured hardships and have great ambitions. Zhu Biao naturally likes such an official.
If you have great ambitions, you won't ruin your future for money. After all, their path has been made clear under Zhu Biao's light. To put it bluntly, once Zhu Biao comes to power, their direct descendants will inevitably replace the new emperor.
The one who holds the important powers of the imperial court.